Richard Comely (born October 9, 1950)[1] is a Canadian comic book creator, penciller, inker, letterer, colorist editor, and publisher.
[10] He began publishing the Captain Canuck comic book series in early 1975 with co-creator Ron Leishman whom he met at an LDS Church meeting.
[8] Comely and Leishman had planned to create a Canadian-themed comic book based on Captain Canada as early as 1971, but were unable to obtain funding.
[12] Two other issues were released in 1975 until Comely Comix went out of business the same year and left the comic at a cliffhanger because they were unable to keep up with publishing costs.
Comely delegated business management, artwork, and coloring to other employees, positions he originally held himself, in order to focus on improving the storyline.
In 1982, he published a new comic series called Star Rider and the Peace Machine, but only two issues were released before the project folded.
[12] Comely and his production staff released Captain Canuck Reborn in 1993 which was intended to be a new series with different characters and a different origin story.
However, Comely only released four issues before it and a Captain Canuck newspaper strip went out of publication in 1996 due to difficulties navigating the Canadian publishing industry.